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Lake District

noun

  1. a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.



Lake District

noun

  1. Also called: Lakelanda region of lakes and mountains in NW England, in Cumbria: includes England's largest lake (Windermere) and highest mountain (Scafell Pike); national park; literary associations (the Lake Poets); tourist region

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Natural landscapes from all four UK nations will also feature inside the updated documents, including Ben Nevis, the Lake District, Three Cliffs Bay and the Giant's Causeway.

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Donald Campbell's Bluebird could run again in the Lake District in May as part of a week-long celebration, it has been announced.

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He was involved in the felling of another remote site, Hardknott in the Lake District, which is now being restored to native woodlands with the gradual "removal of commercial areas".

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Hot spots also included the Northumberland coast, Lerwick on Shetland, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Antrim coast in Northern Ireland.

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Germany defender Thiaw had been in a training camp in the Lake District a few weeks before his £35m move went through when the subject of Newcastle came up.

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